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PRELUDE TO A KISS, a romantic fantasy at Ensemble
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
“If you hear a song in blue
Like a flower crying for the dew
That was my heart serenading you
My prelude to a kiss”
These are the lyrics which Duke Ellington wrote as the first stanza to his 1938 torch song, “Prelude to a Kiss.” It is this song which supposedly inspired Craig Lucas to write and …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
About half an hour before the start of ONCE, the touring version of the musical which is now appearing at the Palace, the audience is invited on stage for beer, music and dancing. It turns out to be a big Irish jam session. An intermission hoe-down is also included in the staging. Come early. Join in. Have fun!
Many of today’s Broadway …more…
Roy Berko
(American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
What do you do when your life doesn’t live up to your dreams? If you are Walter Mitty or Hans Christian Anderson or Edward Bloom, you invent a fantasy life. Mitty, of film fame, was a daydreamer who escaped his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of heroism, romance and action. Anderson imagined fairy tales with lessons of virtue and resilience in …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
A psychiatrist, who is credited with naming the act of sadomasochism, stated, “I feel justified in calling this sexual anomaly “Masochism,” because the author Sacher-Masoch frequently made this perversion, which up to his time was quite unknown to the scientific world as such, the substratum of his writing.” Yes, this is the same Leopold Sacher-Masoch who is the author of VENUS IN …more…
The Boca Raton Theatre Guild presents Marilyn: Forever Blonde – The Marilyn Monroe Story in Her Own Words and Music, starring Sunny Thompson as Marilyn Monroe, at the Township Center for the Performing Arts in Coconut Creek from November 21st – December 1st, and at the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center’s Studio Theatre from January 9th – 11th.
The story is set at a photo shoot in the summer of 1962. …more…
NEWSIES THE MUSICAL delights with impressive dancing and a melodic score
Roy Berko
(American Theatre Critics Association; Cleveland Critics Circle)
Have you every wondered if the second time you see a production of a Broadway show it can live up to the first viewing? Or, whether, after a show runs for a while, does it get stale, loses its spontaneity?
Having seen NEWSIES just before it officially opened, I followed the “rules of the …more…
Roy Berko
(Member: American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Lincoln Center is the largest contiguous performing arts center in the United States. Included in the complex are concert, dance, education, commercial and theatre spaces. The newest venue is the Claire Tow Theatre, a two-story, 23,000 square-foot space built on the roof of the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The space includes the theatre, rehearsal and office space, and a lobby that opens onto …more…
Delightful, well-staged, cast-right FIRST DATE on Broadway
Roy Berko
(Member: American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
How do singles meet, find that perfect “forever,” or at least, their “right” now? In this age of electronics, Craigslist, J-date, and E-Harmony, dot com offer a wide avenue to traverse.
Of course, who can tell if any of the on-line information is accurate? As “The One,” the opening song in FIRST DATE, Broadway’s small cast …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, Cleveland Critics Circle, American Theatre Critics Association)
Roe Green is honored by the Dramatists Guild Fund in NY gala
On October 10, at the Dramatists Guild Fund annual gala at the Edison Ballroom in New York, Cleveland’s Roe Green, Founder and President was honored for her patronage of the arts. The event was hosted by television and Broadway actor Michael Urie, and featured such legendary theatre elite as Stephen Schwartz, …more…
Carbonell Award winners Margo Moreland and Oscar Cheda will star in the Boca Raton Theatre Guild’s production of They’re Playing Our Song at the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park from November 8th – November 24th. The two will portray Vernon Gersch and Sonia Walsk, the fictional counterparts to Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer-Sager whose real-life romance served as the inspiration for the musical.
Pair a somewhat up-tight classically trained musician …more…
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